Getting Started with the Internet of Things

What Pachube Said to Netduino

An HTTP response from Pachube may look like this:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n
Server: nginx/0.7.65\r\n
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:36:55 GMT\r\n
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8\r\n
Connection: keep-alive\r\n
Set-Cookie: _pachube_app_session=BAh7BjoPc2Vzc2lvbl9...;\r\n
Cache-Control: max-age=0\r\n
Content-Length: 1\r\n
Age: 0\r\n
Vary: Accept-Encoding\r\n

In this response, the first line, known as the status line, is the most important. HTTP defines a number of status codes; status code 200 means that the request was handled successfully. (The most important status codes are given in Chapter 10.) The status code is located between the HTTP version and a plain-text version of the status code. The text version of the status ...